Years active 1990–present Children Hamish, Florence Spouse Ali | Role Chef Name Simon Rimmer | |
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Full Name Simon Peter Rimmer Born May 5, 1963 (age 61) ( 1963-05-05 ) Wallasey, Cheshire (Now Merseyside), England Occupation Celebrity chef, television presenter Television Presenting:
Something for the Weekend (2006—12)
Sunday Brunch (2012—)
Daily Brunch (2014)
Win It, Cook It (2014) TV shows Sunday Brunch, Something for the Weekend, Win It - Cook It Books The Accidental Vegetaria, The Seasoned Vegetarian, More from the Accidenta, Something for the Weekend Profiles | ||
Marcus wareing and simon rimmer eat at each other s restaura
Simon Peter Rimmer (born 5 May 1963), is an English chef, best known for his on-screen partnership with Tim Lovejoy, with whom he co-hosted the BBC Two programme Something for the Weekend from 2006 until 2012. Rimmer and Lovejoy then began co-hosting Channel 4 programme Sunday Brunch and its spin-off Daily Brunch in 2014.
Contents
- Marcus wareing and simon rimmer eat at each other s restaura
- Celebrity chef simon rimmer at the 2013 southport flower show
- Career
- Strictly Come Dancing
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
Celebrity chef simon rimmer at the 2013 southport flower show
Career
Rimmer originally studied fashion and textile design and taught himself to cook.
Rimmer founded Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in West Didsbury, Manchester in 1990. Two years later, The Guardian described Greens as one of the most exciting new restaurants in the UK.
Rimmer's television career began with Granada Breeze and he has also appeared regularly on programmes including This Morning, Granada Tonight, A Taste for Travel, Lunchtime Live and The Afternoon Show, Gloria’s Open House on Channel 5, Xchange for CBBC and a spot of co-presenting on UKTV's Great Food Live and BBC One's To Buy or Not to Buy. Simon presented This Little Farmer for BBC One and Making a Meal of It, also for BBC Two. He was the mentor on the Channel 5 programme Breaking Into Tesco in which people competed to get their food products sold by Tesco.
Rimmer's first book, The Accidental Vegetarian, was published in October 2004. His second book, The Rebel Cook, was published in October 2006. His third book Lazy Brunch came out in spring 2008, co-written with Lovejoy and based on a feature in Something from the Weekend. In spring 2009, Mitchell Beazley published his fourth book, The Seasoned Vegetarian.
Rimmer opened his second restaurant, Earle, in Hale in October 2006. It has been named "The top celebrity restaurant to eat at" by the Observer Food Monthly.
Rimmer pitted his cooking talents against other skilled chefs on the first series of Great British Menu in 2006: he lost in the North of England heat to Marcus Wareing. In 2012, Rimmer appeared on the CBBC series 12 Again.
During the 2013 British Sausage Week, Rimmer served as a judge of the regional finals in several regions in the UK, helping to choose the winners and promote the event. He would comment how "impressed" he was at the effort put in by the local butchers.
From 4 August 2014, Rimmer began hosting new Channel 4 cookery quiz Win It, Cook It.
In 2014, Lovejoy and Rimmer presented a short-lived spin-off series called Daily Brunch, airing on Monday to Fridays from 10am. The show lasted for just eight weeks.
In January 2016, he began presenting Tricks of the Restaurant Trade, a Channel 4 series alongside Kate Quilton and Adam Pearson. A second series has aired. In 2017, Rimmer began presenting the daytime show Eat the Week with Iceland. He also presented Secrets of Our Favourite Snacks on Channel 4 with Sophie Morgan in 2017.
Strictly Come Dancing
In August 2017, it was confirmed that Rimmer will take part as a contestant in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Karen Clifton.
Personal life
Rimmer is married with two children and lives in Chorlton Cum Hardy. He supports Liverpool F.C. but chose the history of Tranmere Rovers as his specialist subject on the BBC quiz Mastermind.